He revels in his stupidity with such fervor that it feels like he’s trying to escape back to a point in his life when he wasn’t a 30-year-old creeper. But the writing is filled with such thought — however unrefined — that I found myself reading more articles than I usually do for these reviews.

Overall rating: A great blog to marathon in an afternoon and then forget about.

This was a pretty cool attempt to place anime fans on a graph depending on whether they’re open/shut to new experiences and whether their views of anime are positive or negative. I don’t really agree with the conclusion, but the final graph isn’t really the point of the article. It was nice to see the back and forth between two people as they talk about things, fully aware that what they’re saying is, more or less, bullshit.

A level and intelligent look at Cowboy Bebop and how it relates to western influences as well as why different people have different take-aways from the show. This could be an essay, but the author broached the subject carefully enough to sate the reader but also make them interested in reading more. I’m not a big Cowboy Bebop fan, but I am interested in reading more of Pontifus’s comments on the subject. This is good writing.

Overall rating: Yeah, I can dig it.

Match 28

Well, this is unique. I didn’t really expect any thought put into an anime blog besides “Hey, I can toss my shitty anime opinions onto the internet”. But this here’s an interesting specimen — it’s a blog about anime-related music.

Now, I don’t really care about anime music. But I can at least appreciate one blog in this tournament attempting to do something new.

Overall rating: Thanks for actually trying to do something out of the ordinary.

This is a fantastic article about how guns are bad and how we should all focus on world peace instead of being mean to one another. And by “fantastic” I mean “so absurdly naive it’s a wonder this kid hasn’t wound up in the back of some pedophile’s meat locker yet”.

His argument goes that if people didn’t have guns, somehow we would achieve universal education. Oh, and that people who own guns are “sad, illogical hypocrites”. Where the fuck did that come from? By your own stats, you’re talking about 1/7th of the world here.

1. All KeyAni shows are harems but they’re unique harems.
2. Air is unique because it focuses on a mother-daughter relationship and doesn’t have explicit romance.
3. Kanon is unique because it doesn’t have explicit fanservice.
4. Clannad is unique because it had an epilogue.
5. Clannad was worse than Air.

Of course poor goody goody Naruto couldn’t kill anyone so its clear he was framed but why? :O There seems so be something huge going on here.. :O Gamabunta (The Chief toad) was summonned which means there must be a really strong enemy! :O Is that Killer Bee! OMG Sage Mode! *pause* ROARRRRR!!!! THIS IS GONNA BE EPIC! DOWNLOADD!! (or if you’re like me) WHERE CAN I STREAM THIS!!

Though I would like to note that this aniblog shit doesn’t take time away from the reviews. I write these summaries up at work and then go back to my hotel to post them. The reason you’re not seeing many reviews this week is because my download speeds are super shit here and I don’t have anything reviewable on my laptop. So instead of aniblog shit, you’d just get… Nothing.

There are a number of reasons, but one of the big ones is self-defense. It’s harder to make a police state when the populace can defend themselves. And criminals will always be able to get arms, but allowing regular people to have them too acts as an equalizer.

But you’re right. It IS ingrained in my culture. I probably won’t be able to come up with an argument that others would be able to agree with. It’s not something I give a lot of thought to.